Tuesday, 25 July 2017

I had the pleasure to visit Graham McLusky, the son of artist John McLusky together with Jason from SpyVibe. Graham told us about his father’s work and it was great fun seeing the original artwork.

One fact was particularly interesting: John McLusky was a true perfectionist and he improved on his work even after it was published. There are several panels where John replaced the original artwork with new elements as shown here. They are from "Moonraker"

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Check out Graham’s website where he sells the original artwork and a limited edition of “the face”.

Sunday, 14 May 2017

Covers from from Taiwanese pirate edition of Ian Fleming novels using existing artwork from the Pan and Jonathan Cape books. Images courtesy of Alan from the "Collecting Fleming" site with a comprehensive selection of Ian Fleming books.

Saturday, 6 May 2017

The artwork for Octopussy was created by two different artist: The version used in the US was by Dan Goozee. The rest of the world used artwork by Renato Casaro, sometimes in combination with the figures created by Goozee.

Casaro was asked to create a wide action scene montage around the figures created by Goozee to accommodate the landscape/ quad format in the UK.

This artwork was then used widely across the world. For some posters (such as the German one) the artwork was extended by an unknown artist such as the back of the elephant or the exploding train that was not part of Casaro’s original painting.

Japan asked Casaro to re-create the figures of Moore and Adams therefore creating a completely new artwork.

Big thank you to Gabriele from the Casaro Studios and Thomas from the Nixdorf Collection for their help and input!

Sunday, 23 April 2017

Original artwork for "The Spy Who Loved Me" by TongDee used for the campaign in Thailand. Approx 80x60 cm. Bob Peak's original artwork as comparison below.Thanks to Thomas from the Nixdorf Collection for sharing this!